"There almost wasn't a fight," Givhan's trainer Terence Thompson said. "We left the gym the other day and he was 142 and usually after a night of sleep he loses a couple pounds. Obviously he drank a little too much water throughout the day and mistimed it. It is what it is. It won't happen again. It certainly wasn't lack of training."

Givhan was able to drop down to 141.6 which made negotiations flow a little easier, Shimmell said.

"Dropping four pounds in an hour? I don't think so, but he tried and got more than two," Shimmell said. "I'll give him a lot of credit for that."

Also in the mix was which boxer walked to the ring first, which corner (red or blue) they would fight out of and a title belt.

West Michigan Boxing Authority vice president Bob Serulla said he liked the matchup of Givhan and Flores so much he offered up the vacant WMBA junior welterweight belt a few weeks ago.

That offer is off the table now due to the demand of money, Serulla said.

"(The Flores camp) basically said 'if we're going to fight for a title, we want more money,'" Serulla said. "That's up to the promoter but my stance was if that's what it was we'd just move on."

The WMBA has just one other active belt which is held by Hudsonville's Jordan Shimmell in the heavyweight division.

"Flores obviously wanted more money to fight for a belt and that wasn't going to happen," Serulla said. "It's not a situation where the West Michigan Boxing Authority has anything to do with paying for the fight, its role is rewarding with the belt."

That wasn't enough for Flores, who said fighting for a belt wasn't in the original contract.

"The contract we signed said there was no title but then I'm fighting for one?" Flores said. "So I said there needs to be more money."

"If we would have talked about that at the beginning that's one thing but I walk in there and not know what's going with it? Nope."

Serulla said Givhan paid his portion of the sanctioning fee for the belt so if he wins, he gets the belt anyway.

"We called a board meeting late last night and made that decision," Serulla said. "It is too bad Flores' handlers do not see the big picture and the opportunities a title belt will bring for the fighter."

Givhan's camp relented on the issue of the walkout but will fight out of the red corner. Flores will walk second and be in the blue corner.

"I've been training hard, we're ready to win," Flores said. "He doesn't intimidate me at all, we're going in there to come out with the win."

One other issue arose at the weigh-in.

Johnny Garcia's opponent Angel Hernandez came in six tenths of a pound over his 146-pound limit and a financial agreement was reached between the two camps.

Hernandez is coming off two big fights in Michigan.

Last October Hernandez lost a split-decision to Grandville's Purnell Gates, who won the USBO light middleweight title at The DeltaPlex.

More recently Hernandez was ahead on the judges' cards in a war with Detroit's Lanardo Tyner at the Masonic Temple in Detroit on Jan. 10. Nearing the end of the tenth and final round, Tyner dropped Hernandez for the TKO win.